Poultry Plant Reopens Under New Ownership at Letart Falls
Fomero y The Crow brothers announce reopening of the Letart Falls poultry plant after months closed. The plant, once among the county’s largest employers, had dressed about 100 birds daily and could handle 14 000 to 16 000 with modern equipment. ownership shifts to Thomas Crow and Robert Pomeroy with continued local involvement by the Crow and Rosenbaum families.
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Letart Falls
Wise Industries
Tom and
Bob Crow
Thomas
Tom Crow
Crow, Jr
Pomeroy
Robert Pomeroy
Leiart Falls
Richard
Rosenbaum
Three
Pomeroy PTA Elects Officers at First Meeting
POMEROY Adrian Carson was elected and installed as vice president of Rutland PTA to fill a vacancy at the high school auditorium. Miss Elizabeth Lloyd installed him. The group planned hosting county PTA in May and heard talks by Wayne Turner and Orin Smith on school projects. Attendees praised attendance and pledged funds to improve the cafeteria. Committees were named for the year and the teachers were introduced.
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PTA
Pomeroy
Adrian Carson
Rutland
P.T.A
Carolyn Smith
Orin Smith
Herbert Parker
Middleport Society Meeting Time Change
Middleport Brownell Avenue Home Demonstration group agrees to meet monthly on the second Thursday for an all day session replacing the prior biweekly afternoon gatherings. First monthly meeting to be hosted by Mrs Russell with officers named including Mrs Lewis Sauer Jr president and Mrs Pullen as vice president.
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Middleport
Brownell Avenue
Russell
Jo Pullen
Wallace Bradford
Lewis Sauer
Pullen
Report From the Woods It Was Plenty Wet
Middleport hunters described a soggy opening to the hunting season with squirrels abundant after early rains. One nimrod shared a corn-bait method to lure squirrels while others missed limits due to the 4 PM downpour. Chestnuts and beechnuts were reported plentiful across the area.
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Middleport
Nimrod
Breathing Tube Installed In Tight Michigan Vault
Lansing report says the state treasurer ordered a breathing tube added to the airtight vault after learning a person inside could live about 20 minutes if the door slammed shut. Workmen spent three days battering and drilling the four foot wall to fit the tube. The Uniform Vehicle Code was formulated 30 years ago.
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Lansing
Mich
State Treasurer's
Sanford A. Brown
Rutland Community Hosts Weekend Guests and Birth Announcement
Rutland area residents hosted a flurry of visitors from Chillicothe Huntington and Columbus over a recent weekend. The Snowden and Parker families plus relatives gathered for birthdays and family dinners while Brest Lanning and wife announced the birth of daughter Juanita Lynne at Mount St Mary Hospital with grandparents Cynthia Hammond and Alex Vaido noted.
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Chauncey
Brest Lanning
Juanita Lynne
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Alex Vaido
Glouster
Cynthia Hammond
Lanning
Cheryle
Irene
Ernest Lee
Kennedy Engagement Announced for Beatrice Kennedy
POMEROY Mr and Mrs Guy Kennedy of Langsville announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter Beatrice to Lloyd Dugan son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Dugan of Rutland. Beatrice Kennedy a Rutland High School graduate class of 1953 is employed at Goessler Jewelry Store in Pomeroy. Lloyd Dugan a Gloucester High School graduate class of 1953 is employed in Kegger Creek Power Plant construction. The open church wedding will be read at 2 pm Sunday Oct 14 by Rev George E Davis at Rutland Methodist Church.
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Asiss Iris van Cooney
FBI
Washington, D.C
Washington
Miss VanCooney
Middleport
Lewis VanCooney
Judy VanCooney
Floyd Stanley
Dayton
Roger Covert
Larry Lewis
U.S. Air Force
Middleport High School
Covert
Cresap
W.va
Arthur Covert
Columbus
William Fultz
Kimberly Sue
C. C
Charles VanCooney
Holzer Hospital
Locust St
Karl Owen
S. Third Ave
Paul Winebbrewer
First Presbyterian Church
Roscoe Meadows
Dea Hayes
Leo Searls
More, Md
Daisy Andersland
Pomeroy
Guy Kennedy
Langsville
Beatrice
Lloyd Dugan
Joseph Dugan
Rutland
Miss Kennedy
Rutland High School
Goessler Jewlery
Dugan
Glouster High School
Kgger Creek
George
E."davis
Rutland Methodist Church
Young People's Groups Start Autumn Activities
Middleport churches reactivate youth groups after summer. Activities include Sunday study and worship, recreation, and a 6:30 am youth rally at First Baptist with evangelist Mel Martin Dibble and organist Frank Catanzaro. Grace Methodist hosts a group study excursion. Presbyterian church reports officers and social committee roles and names.
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Middleport
Heath
Methodist Fellowship
Gallipolis
Grace Methodist Church
First Baptist Church
Mel Martin Dibble
Frank Catanzaro
First Presbyterian Church
Chauncey Social Notes First School Meeting Tuesday
The Millfield Home and School Organisation will hold its first meeting of the school year Tuesday at 7 30. All parents of the new first grade children are urged to attend. Members are to bring cookies for the social hour.
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Chauncey
Millfield
Sept 29 Date Set For Band Tag Day
Pomeroy High School marching band tag day dates were moved from last Saturday to Saturday Sept 22 and again postponed to Sept 29. Superintendent Charles Gibbs said the second postponement avoids clashing with the Meigs Chapter Disabled American Veterans forget-me-not flower sale. Band members do not want to interfere with that fundraising event.
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Yominix
Pomeroy High School
Charles $. Gibbs
Pomeroy
Gibbs
Meigs
Disabled American Veterans
Lanning Family Welcomes Son Ronald Leon
Mr and Mrs Joseph Lanning Chauncey announce the birth of a son Ronald Leon at Mt St Mary Hospital weighing seven pounds one ounce Sept. The couple also are parents of Judith Ann and Anita Jo. Grandparents are Mrs Cynthia Hammond Chauncey Mrs Mae Johnson Nelsonville Route 1 and Mr Gus Wachenschwanz Doanville.
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Chauncey
Joseph Lanning
Ronald Leon
Mt St. Mary Hospital
Lanning
Judith Ann
Anita Jo
Cynthia, Hammond
Mae Johnson
Nelsonville
Gus Wachen
Schwanz
Doanville
Administrator Pomeroy Named for Edith Siders Estate
Robert Pomeroy Coats has been appointed administrator of the estate of the late Edith Siders of Middleport. The appointment is recorded to manage assets and legal affairs following Siders' passing.
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Pomeroy
Robert Coats
Edith Siders
Middleport
Chauncey Area Personalities Visit Families and Attend Wedding
Chauncey and Athens residents hosted and visited relatives including Mrs Theo Moody of Mooseheart and Olive Brookins and Helen Howard. Jo Ann Helber and Tom Richmond wed at Belleview with Mrs Gillespie among the hostesses. Guests toured Blue Hole and Edison birthplace, while others watched Chauncey Nelsonville football.
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Shauncey
Carl Moody
Jerry
Jimmie
Theo Moody
Mooseheart
Floyd Brookins
Linda
Mark
Athens
Olive Brookins
Helen Howard
Robert Gillespie
Belleview
Jo Ann Helber
Tom Richmond
Gillespie
Richmond
Ohio University
Blue Hole
Thomas Edison
Richard Stalder
Chauncey Nelsonville
George Scott
Columbus
Burg Johnston
Gerald Blackford
Plains
Auto Crash Injures Two on Route 33 near Albany
A northbound car driven by Paul Davis 19 Albany veered off Route 33 and struck a tree injuring Davis with rib fractures and a cut near the heart and Larry Pugh 19 also injured. They were taken to Meigs General Hospital by the Pomeroy Emergency Squad. the car was owned by Edward Pugh Albany.
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Pomeroy
Route
Charles Russell
Russell
Paul Davis
Albany
Davis
Larry Pugh
Meigs General Hos
Edward Pugh
Hamm announces birth of Jeanne Roedell Hamm in Chillicothe
Mr and Mrs Robert L Hamm announce the birth of a daughter Jeanne Roedell Hamm in Chillicothe on Saturday. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs J O Roedel and Mr and Mrs Walter L Hamm. The Hamm family already has a daughter Barbara Louise, age 3.
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Athens Messenger
Pomeroy Society
Racine
Order of Eastern Star
Ohio
Marion J. Baldwin
Bainbridge
Y Oma Gaston
Guysville
Grand Chapter
Jeanette Ward
Marietta
William Steward
Louise Stewart
Hattie Ohlinger
New Haven
W. Va
Maxine Wingett
Erlene Wolfe
Avice Freck- 1 Fet
WSCS
Hazel Buckley
Dorotha Riebel
Range
Rock Springs
Ome Economics
Yomeroy
Federated Church
Dayton Phillips
Big Bend
Portland Park
Bill Childs
Kathryn Crow
Big Bend Minstrel Association
Bob Hoeflich
Majestic
Point Pleasant
Lunb
Syracuse
Grange
Pomeroy Bend
D.A.W
Butternut Ave
Shrine
Oo Manux
White Shrine
Jerusalem
Metriday
1.C.C.F. Hall
Elizabeth Lear
William Dixon
Shepherds
Mary Bartlett
Supreme Worthy
Flossie Dixon
Lafayette Shrine
Berneice Merrill
Ohio Association of Garden Subs
Glenn Lee
Gayee
Jessie Saunders
Mirs
Edson Hart
Rumerus
Pratts Fork
John Lucente
Akron
E. J. Noland
Nutter Fork
John Hartung
Mi Dana Young
Enterprise
Mr Hartung
Noland
Allen C. Hill, Sr
Bob
Boston
Cape Cod
Niagara Falls
Jerrole Hartung
Ronnie
Bruce
Nellie Tracy
Laurel Cliff
James E. Sannorn
Sara Faye Taylor
Ivestock
Middleport Society
Jennifer Craig
Robert Craig
Maureen Darst
Narsa Frost
Richard Haggerty
Michael van Cooney
Billy Hensler
Cynthia Mills
Judy Brewer
Rhonda Hysell
Beverly
Joan Rathburn
Anita Marie Fultz
Corliss
Bobby Manley
Alice
Bob Darst
Debbie
Bernard
Linda Lyons
Christie
Cathy Bailey
Family Party
John Frederick Fultz
Henry Fultz
Anita Marie
Allen Knopp
Jay Myers
Aaron Kelton
Karon
Leroy
William
Fultz
Harold Jones
Euse
Swisher
Carla Daune
Owen
Paul Winebrene
Myron Miller
George Anderson
Miller
James Miller
Miramar
Calif
Naval Air Station
la Jolla
Navy
Victor Braley
Mike Farman
Alpha Plummer
Harry
Lancaster
Homer Parker
Parker
Rory Snowden
Carol Snowden
Bruce Mays
Roynd
Phylis
Susie Parker
Blanche
David Tills
Chillicothe
Roy Snowden
Maxine ‘ Rumfield
Leland Snowden
Painesville
Ernest Roush
Mason City
Henry Carpenter
Wayne Rupe
Jake
Rupe
Kenneth Michels
Michels
Arnold Grate
Walls
Walter Saylor
Ernest Borden
Hattie McKenzie
Junior Williams
Priceton
John Bell
Betty
M. Ethel Nelson
Helen May
Herman Welch
Kathy
Drexel
Lambert
Bernard Higby
Ethel Snowden
Lawrence Snowden
Harry Snowden
A. David
Robert Snowden
Bobbie
Charles Kennedy
Donald Kennedy
Beryl Siders
Jean
Siders
Cash Zimmerman
Smokey Mountains
Victor Mature
Guy Madison
Cornel Wilde
Jean Wallace
Lana Turner
Honkey Tone
Basil Rathbone
Bela Lagosi
AK Sleep
Cartoon
Carteene- Nome
Guy Kennedys
Beatrice Kennedy
Chauncey Social Notes
J. Lannings
ATLAS
K&m
Manning
Mike Mullen
Hamms
Zemo
Liberty Theatre
Pomeroy Bend Theatres
Trapeze” Lim Cinemascope
Temple
Prancis
Mickey Rooney Viles
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